Glass House Mountains is also a hinterland town of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Australia. The Sunshine Coast (population 290645 with up to an additional 50000 in visitors and seasonal workers is a coastal region located in South East Queensland, north of the Queensland is a state of Australia, occupying the north-eastern corner of the mainland continent For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Australia topics. It is located approximately 70 km north of Brisbane, in the Caloundra City local government area . The kilometre ( American spelling: kilometer) symbol km is a unit of Length in the Metric system, equal to one thousand Brisbane ( is the state capital of Queensland. Brisbane is the third most populous city in Australia and the most populous city of Queensland Caloundra (kəˈlaʊndrə is the southern-most community on the Sunshine Coast in South East Queensland, Australia. Known colloquially as "Glasshouse", it takes its name from the famous mountains and National Park of the area. Glass House Mountains is a national park in Queensland ( Australia) 70 km northeast of Brisbane.
The town's population is just over 900, and many of its original foundations were built on sugarcane and pineapple farming. Sugarcane ( Saccharum) is a genus of 6 to 37 species (depending on taxonomic interpretation of tall perennial grasses (family Poaceae tribe Andropogoneae Pineapple ( Ananas comosus) is the common name for an edible Tropical Plant and also its Fruit It is native to the southern part of Brazil The town also has a train station and a railway line that runs northwards towards Northern Queensland and southwards to Brisbane. Glasshouse Mountains railway station is a Railway station on the Nambour and Gympie North Line of South East Queensland, Australia. The North Coast railway line is also a railway in New South Wales, Australia.
The town also has one of the largest and well maintained soccer grounds on the Sunshine Coast. Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a Team sport played between two teams of eleven players and is widely considered The popularity of soccer having sprung up from the European farmers that inhabited the area. The grounds were built mostly using the donated resources of those farmers of the area.
The township of Beerwah is located in this region, a popular tourist destination, being home to Steve Irwin's Australia Zoo. Stephen Robert Irwin (22 February 1962 – 4 September 2006 known simply as Steve Irwin and Nicknamed " The Crocodile Hunter " was an iconic
Glass House Mountains - The article on the mountains. The Glass House Mountains are a group of eleven hills that rise abruptly from the coastal plain on the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Australia.